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Schedler was the first to qualify and Donelon was the last. Donelon showed up earlier in the day but did not have the full $900 required. He said he had the $600 qualifying fee for the secretary of state's office but forgot the $300 the state GOP gets as part of its share of the qualifying money so he returned 90 minutes later with the correct amount.

Ceasar said that qualifying to run for governor is a "continuation of the recall effort" against Jindal for cutting health care and education budgets.

The only Democrat to announced for the governor's race, Tara Hollis, a special education teacher from Haynesville, said she will qualify today.

Jindal said he welcomes all challengers and said he "is not taking anything for granted. I have knocked on 100,000 doors and made 1 million phone calls.

"We will run against anybody who qualified. We will take our case directly to the voters."

Jindal said that even in a slow economy, his office has created jobs and kept the state's unemployment rate below the national and regional averages.

He told reporters if he is re-elected he will serve the full four-year term. Jindal has been mentioned as a possible national GOP candidate for president or vice president.

He also said he will debate his opponents but did not say how many times.

Jindal campaign manager Timmy Teepell said that the governor has already accepted an invitation to debate opponents on a CBS-TVaffiliate debate to be aired in New Orleans on WWL-TV in the days leading up to the primary.

The governor recently reported having about $8.8 million in his campaign account and said he will use some of it to help elect conservative members of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the Legislature, "those who share our philosophy."

He did not say how much will set aside for the other races.

Republicans will be squaring off against each other in the secretary of state's race with Schedler facing term-limited House Speaker Jim Tucker, R-Algiers, and in the lieutenant governor's campaign with Dardenne challenged by Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser.

Schedler said he expects to spend about $1 million on the race, his first statewide after serving three terms in the Senate from St. Tammany and Tangipahoa parishes.Tucker is also making his first statewide race after serving three terms as a representative from Jefferson and Orleans parishes. He said he expects to spend $750,000 to $1 million on the race.

There will be two races for secretary of state on the ballot -- one to finish Dardenne's term, which ends in January and the second one for an entire four-year term.

Nungesser painted himself as the true conservative in the race against Dardenne. "There is a clear line between my conservative values and my opponent," he said. He said Dardenne has voted for taxes as a state senator in the Legislature.

"An endorsement is a funny thing," Dardenne said. "They come and go" He was referring to Nungesser's support of him when he ran for lieutenant governor nine months ago "He (Nungesser) was right then and wrong now," Dardenne said.

Dardenne said he expects to spend between $1 million and $2 million on the race. Nungesser said he has raised more than $1 million so far but did not estimate how much his race will cost.